Group 18: Grime music: Structure

From what I have seen, Grime music videos are different to mainstream hip-hop rap because there are certain aspects that cannot be incorporated into a narrative structure, such as the crowd of males beside the artists:

Chip - I'm fine ft. Stormzy

or the fact that they have certain editing techniques such as multiple angles and jump cuts and camera movement that would only make sense in a MV with a lot of action, which is not what grime represents. Mise-en-scene, including the typical settings in streets or secluded areas in London, convey to the audience the artist is representing where they come from.

I have screenshotted some typical settings and locations from grime music videos:

local housing

expensive cars pulling up in street

artist with crew, lip-syncing in middle of the road

motorbikes blocking off street (this is used quite frequently)

graffiti backgrounds

estate complex

cityscape/skyline at night

inside the (said expensive) car, rapping

* some are also recorded in the studio, with multiple artists or friends of the artist in the background*

However, I have found some music videos that ILLUSTRATE its lyrics

"Peng tings on my WhatsApp and my iPhone too"

"The brown skin girls and the light ones too"

"Adidas creps, don't ask where I got them"

AND

"...then I come through with my ABC"

"How can a man with a uni degree..."

As you can see, there is a similar way some grime artists use illustration in their music videos, which - to my knowledge - cannot be said for any mainstream rap music videos. This grime video by Young Spray is a mixture of Illustration and Amplification:

The use of the estate and the local services within the area including the barber shop at the beginning is an amplification which shows where the artists' roots are and where they came from and the people they where around and how it has made them become who they are as people, but the way the artist is happy and greets them shows they are grateful for this place because it has brought them street knowledge and helped them meet the people that are significant figures in their lives. When Wretch 32 is in the house, it illustrates the lyrics as he talks about how he used to have plaits in his hair and how his mother counted pennies as he is in a small room and the video cuts to a young boy wearing a tracksuit that seems to represent him at that age. This video has come to made me think that most grime music videos are an amplification of the life the artists live/d in the ghettos of Britain, and whether or not the artist's music video have anything to do with their lyrics, it is about the tradition of keeping to style and editing which is what all grime music videos have in common.

Disconjuncture:
So far I have not found any 100% grime MVs that are entirely disconjunctured, however this song by Tinie Tempah ft. Labyrinth - Frisky, which leans more towards pop, however towards the end, the tempo and beat resembles dancehall/rave music which can be associated with grime:

overview of the lyrics: he (Tinie Tempah and Labyrinth) feel sad however unapologetic about not being held down by one girl, and talks about what he with to any girl he likes (sexually)
The video does not link to its lyrics, however many girls are in it:

he is standing in front of shapes projected onto his face and body